Something Always Happens When You Go Sailing

Something Always Happens When You Go Sailing
Author: denis lawrence
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2017-08-11
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0244325464

This book is a candid and humourous account of the author's adventures in sailing. It begins with his first experiences as a teenager with rowing boats in the North East of England. Later he describes the joys of sailing dinghies and cruisers in the South West of England. These adventures range from smooth idylic sails in good weather to a full on ship wreck in storm conditions. His tales of learning to sail expand to yacht racing on the Swan River in Perth and in the Indian Ocean, Western Australia. His lively and candid descriptions of fellow yachtsmen and women he met while sailing add wit and pathos to his abiding love of the sea. The book should appeal not only to experienced yachtsmen but also to the 'arm-chair sailor' who likes to read about sailing. The title of the book is in reference to a comment made by his wife, Anne, when their sailing dinghy sprung a leak during their sail together.

Alone Together

Alone Together
Author: Christian Williams
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2016-02-28
Genre:
ISBN: 9780997253108

Swell

Swell
Author: LIZ. CLARK
Publisher: Patagonia
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024-05-14
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781952338229

Learn to Sail with Captain Sailnator

Learn to Sail with Captain Sailnator
Author: Alexander Meyer
Publisher: Alexander Meyer
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2015-03-23
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN:

This ebook is designed as preparation for a practical sailing course or as an accompaniment to it. It is also excellent for people who are returning to sailing and want to freshen up their knowledge. For those who have just started it helps to understand how sailing works and is also suitable to introduce family members, partners and friends in this wonderful sport. All the important sailing manoeuvres are explained comprehensively and easy to understand. After reading this ebook you will visit your practical sailing course well prepared. There you can concentrate on the actually important matter, already knowing some of the theory: Sailing The ebook contains 144 coloured images showing the important sailing manoeuvres step by step. On additional 75 black and white images the nautical knots are explained. So before you buy the ebook please download a free sample and have a look if your ebook-reader shows all details on the images correctly.

Hooked on the Horizon

Hooked on the Horizon
Author: Tom Dymond
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021-08
Genre: Adventure and adventurers
ISBN: 9781916900103

Three vast oceans, two young men and one dubious idea - to sail around the world. When a sailboat barely bigger than a bathtub pottered into the English Channel, James and Tom began the adventure of a lifetime. In their little boat Blue Eye they set sail, ladened with the notion that happiness and freedom loitered just over the horizon. And yet as they journeyed between continents and across oceans, they found they were still anchored to their old unsatisfied selves. Hampered not only by the storms of the Atlantic Ocean and the pirates of the Red Sea, the craving nature of the human mind also threatens their bid to circumnavigate the world. From the Caribbean to the Suez Canal, James and Tom chase one sunset after the next, convinced a treasure trove of fulfilment lies waiting beyond the horizon. What will it take for them to discover that the sea is not always bluer on the other side? Hooked on the Horizon is Tom Dymond's travel memoir of sailing Blue Eye around the world. If you like being transported across oceans, escaping to far-flung paradises, and finding humour and philosophy in between, then you'll love the story of Blue Eye's adventure.

Sailing Smart

Sailing Smart
Author: Buddy Melges
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 216
Release: 1987-04-15
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780805003512

Sailing Smart is for every sailor who wants to increase his or her knowledge, understanding, and sailing expertise: the local day-sailor who wants a firmer grasp of the fundamentals, as well as the serious competitor who wants to be up on the latest, most innovative sailing techniques and racing strategies. Buddy Melges, one of the world's best-known sailors, has at last set down his highly original thoughts on how to sail well. He covers the full range of sailing experience, from the general to the specific, the basic to the highly sophisticated. Melges's message is delivered in a bright, uncluttered manner by way of applications from his own sailing experience and through step-by-step instructions on everything from basic boat handling to expert on-the-course tactics and maneuvers. This book is expertly illustrated by the noted sailing artist Ted Brennan, and each drawing is accompanied by a cogent, in-depth explanatory caption.

Isabella goes sailing

Isabella goes sailing
Author: Michele Lodge
Publisher: Kolima Books
Total Pages: 51
Release: 2015-11-23
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 8416364389

When sailing with Grandpa something magical always happens. You can?t sail without wind. Grandpa?s sailboat is called a sloop and has two sails. It also has a little engine just in case there is no wind. The big sail is called the main sail and the smaller sail is called the jib. When it is very windy the boat can sail with just the jib, so it does not tip to the side too much. It?s really funny; there is a boat language.

The boat they laughed at

The boat they laughed at
Author: max liberson
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2012-01-11
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1471043606

Buying a 42' ferro-cement boat for £1500 and what started as a retort to a wind-up led to the adventure of a lifetime. RYA Yachtmaster Max Liberson had been drawn to the sea all his life, but it was the chance acquisition of a yacht that apparently only he could see the potential of that allowed him to fulfil a dream. What followed was a true story of ingenuity, persistence and more anecdotal tales of woe than most sailors would want to admit to as their own. For anyone aiming to make a similar voyage, the story goes into detail of his plans beforehand and the many pitfalls and triumphs he encountered on his 9-month round trip from Battlesbridge in Essex over to the Carribean.

The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story

The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story
Author: Michael M. Lewis
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2000
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0393048136

Tells the unlikely story of Silicon Valley through the life of one of its great achievers--Jim Clark, who founded Silicon Graphics and Netscape and may be on the verge of another trillion-dollar company.